Golang Weekly Issue 174: August 24, 2017

Golang Weekly

Issue 174 — August 24, 2017

Featured

goderive: A Next Generation Code Generator for Go

A tool that parses your code for functions that are not yet implemented and generates the boilerplate for them.

Walter Schulze

Context Isn't for Cancellation

Joining other experience reports on the subject, this one proposes decoupling lifetime management from context.Context.

Dave Cheney

Why Go Scales: Concurrency in Go vs Elsewhere video

A 40 minute talk from GoWayFest 2017 digging into the internals of Go’s concurrency model, how it interacts with the OS, and how it compares to other approaches.

Eyal Post

End-to-end visibility into Go apps

Visualize and alert on custom metrics. Optimize performance with distributed tracing + interactive flame graphs.

Datadog sponsored

Embedding Data in Go Executables

How to embed your static assets into a Go binary using a combination of go generate and go-bindata.

Tit Petric

Securing Cookies in Go

Make sure your cookies are safe from theft, tampering, leaking, and other common cookie attack vectors.

Jon Calhoun

Why Go Is My Favorite Programming Language

A developer with a background in C, Perl and Delphi shares his thoughts on why Go is great.

Michael Stapelberg

Function Failure Reporting: Error Vs Bool

An in-depth look at function failure reporting conventions used today and which one should be the default.

Eyal Posener

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In Brief

Serving HTTPS with Go tutorial

Covers situations where a certificate exists or auto-management of certificates via something like Let’s Encrypt.

Pocket Gophers

The Asterisk and The Ampersand: An Introduction to Pointers in Go tutorial

Camilla Montonen

Using New Relic with Go tutorial

How to instrument your Go code to capture transaction, database, and external call metrics.

Jimmy John

Build a RESTful API Microservice with Go tutorial

Marshall Shen

Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications

Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many applications are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought.

VividCortex sponsored

Latency Matters: Go vs Python story

Measuring the latency involved when using a script within a shell prompt.

Stefan Majewsky

Go vs .NET Core in Terms of HTTP Performance opinion

Gerasimos Maropoulos

Is Anything Better Than Using 'if err != nil {return err;}' Everywhere? opinion

Protocol Buffers: Avoid These Uses opinion

As programmers flock to protobufs, here are some thoughts about when not to use them.

John Doak

Speed up builds by up to 300% with Codeship Pro’s new Docker Image Caching

Beta users reduced their build times significantly. Learn more and find out how our engineers worked on the feature.

Codeship sponsored

Realize: Go Build System with File Watchers, Live Reload and Output Streams tools

github.com

pg: A Postgres Featured Oriented Client and ORM for Go code

Vladimir Mihailenco

goformation: A Go Library for Working with CloudFormation Templates code

Amazon Web Services Labs

NVIDIA Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging NVIDIA GPUs code

NVIDIA Corporation